Air Internment

• Chloe Antill, Grade 11, Springwood State High School -
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

Cohesion has drained, numbing, thrumming; it’s in my brain
Left, I’m left feeling lost; out of my depth, and at what cost?
I can’t concentrate, I cease to see sense; my flaws assemble, their size immense
Typing, torrents of wild horses, why? and days tiring, time stultifies
As panic sets in, it rattles my bones; a humming, uneasy awakening tone
It etches, screeches, writes tombstones; it's unrelenting, unforgiving, it's unknown
Shaking, shallow air, glistening eyes; breaking, marrow tare, fading disguise
Shockingly still sight of pallor; paralyse, like glass in shatters, mind in agonise
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Release
The air drops its cease
Silence, stillness, now at peace
The panic gone
The day, the day soldiers on.